More message delete options

Not sure if this is a mutual help or a feature request, but could we get more choices for message deletion?

5 weeks is a little odd, would’ve expected 1 month, but sure, why not, but why nothing between 5 weeks and a year? Seems like one would expect quarterly and semi-annual options.

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Semi-annual, quarterly, and cross-quarterly are all natural divisions of time in some cultures but not others. The same could be said of seven-day weeks.

The options have been expanded on request in the past. I think adding a “Delete after ___ days” textbox would satisfy almost everyone and might be preferable to adding more and more discrete options.

Certainly this is a feature request; it requests a prgramming change and not usage info. :slight_smile:

What’s cross-quarterly?

In my experience one day, one week, one month, three months (quarter), six months(semi) and finally one year are rather standard in time scheduling, plus it just seems like a really large spread between 5 weeks and a year, you’d think there’d be at least one more in there.

Cross-quarterly. I rest my case that such things are culture-specific. :slight_smile:

Huh, interesting, though I don’t think that option makes sense here as those are fixed special dates rather than time periods if’n I’m understanding that, though I will admit to glossing over it.

The cross-quarter days are indeed dates; if quarterly is every three months, I guess cross-quarterly would be every 1.5 months. :slightly_smiling_face:

I agree. It’s nice there is now a 1 year option, but it does feel like there is something missing between 5 weeks and 1 year as that is a very large time gap. It would be very nice to have an option in the range of 3 to 6 months! Now that the 1 minute and 30 minute options have been removed, there should be more than enough screen space for an option of 3 months or 6 months (or both) or at least something in that range!

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I would welcome a 3 month option and/or a 6 month option to bridge the gap between 5 months and 1 year.